Transfer table



June 18, 1929. RI HARDSON 1.718.077

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I N VEN TOR ATTORNEYS Patented June 18, 1929.

UNITED. STATES LAWRENCE RICHARDSON, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

TRANSFER TABLE.

\ Application filed November 24, 1926. Serial No. 150,533.

The invention relates to improvements in transfer tables.

In plural railways, particularly as found adjacent locomotives and car shops, the rails often occupy different relative vertical positions, and then again frequently such rails are located on a soft ballast so that it is practically impossible to maintain the series of parallel rails in the same vertical position. Such a 1 condition in the past has caused a serious flexing of a transfer table movable over such rails, frequently loosening connections therein or breaking the transverse horizontal members of the table.

It is an object of this invention to provide a transfer table which will operate satisfactorily over a plural railway of the character described by permitting flexibllity of said table in a vertical plane while at the same time maintaining the base of the table in a proper horizontal plane to carry the load thereon.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, I preferably make such a table by providing a central section having hinged thereto one or more additional sections, the said sections being so connected that one may freely move relative to another to properly travel over the rails. Such a construction furthermore permits the various sections to,be main tained in the proper relative alignment in a horizontal plane to adequately carry the load distributed over such connected sections.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the table;

Figure 2 is a top plan view; and,

Figure 3 is an end elevation.

The reference characters A, B and C represent the sections of the transfer table. Three of these sections are shown for the purpose of illustrating this invention, although any number may be employed. As each section is of substantially the same construction. a description of the structure of one will suffice for all. Each section is provided with a transfer rail 1 seated on a relatively large supporting beam 2 of I-shaped cross section. The supporting beams are in turn mounted in and supported by brackets 8 fitting over the ournal boxes 7 of the wheels 10. To connect the front and rear parallel rails 1 as well as the beams 2 and the brackets 8 tie/bars 3 and lateral bracings 4 are provided. It will be further observed that each section has four axles 9, to which there are attached the wheels 10 travelling over the ra ls .lL T e axles e.

supported in the journal boxes 7. The axles are furthermore provided with flexible connections 12 in order that the axle of one section may shift relative to the axle of another.

The sections are connected to one another as shown in Figure 1. The section B carries a pair of lugs or outstanding ears 6, such lugs .or. ears being connected to the adjacent secor axle 9 at one end of the transfer table. The

operation of this motor, of course, transmits power to the wheels 10. Inasmuch as flexible couplings 12 are provided in the axle 9 at both sides of the central table B this axle will yield when irregular or non-aligned tracks are being traversed.

- It will be understood that in accordance with this invention any number of sections may be hingedly connected together in keeping with the use to which the transfer table is to be placed. It will be furthermore understood that the construction of each table may vary materially with the disclosures herein found so long as such sections are hingedly connected together to permit one to move relative to the other and yet at the same time to enable the wheels of such sections to be positively driven by a source of power.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A transfer table comprising sections, wheels and supporting axles for said sections, flexible connections interposed in said axles, and means for pivotally connecting said sections.

2. A transfer table comprising a central section, sections pivotally connected to each side of said central section, supporting wheels and axles for said sections, and flexible couplings in said axles substantially as descrlbed.

3. A transfer table comprising a ser es of hinged sections, wheels therefor, a drivlng shaft for said sections, and flexible couplings interposed in said driving shaft.

l. A transfer tablecomprising a pan of sections hinged together, wheels therefor, a (driving shaft for certain of said wheels, a flexible coupling in shaft.

5. A transfer table comprising a plurality of sections, means for hinging said sec tions together, supporting axles, Wheels thereon, flexible couplings in said supporting axles, a driving axle for said sections, driving Wheels'thereon, and flexible couplings in said axle.

6. A transfer table comprising a plurality of sections, means for hinging said sections together, supporting axles, wheels thereon, flexible couplings 111 said supporting axles, a drlving axle for said sections, drlving Wheels thereon, flexible couplings 1n said axle, said couplings being disposed near the point of pivotal connection between said 15 sections.

7. A transfer table comprising a series of sections, means for pivotally connecting said sections to permit relative movement there of, supporting axles, supporting Wheels there 20 011, and flexible couplings in said axles at points adjacent the pivotal connections of said sections.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

LAWRENCE RICHARDSON. 

